You couldn’t think of anything to write so you decided to write an entry in the second person. Immediately after you started you realised that it sounds really freaky, like you’re lecturing people. It’s also a bit like that Henry Rollins spoken word piece, “I know you” that you used to listen to a lot [...]
I spent most of yesterday trying to figure out if I wanted to go to the Big Day Out. There were a few moments where I almost went off and bought a ticket, but in the end I decided to leave it until today. And today I decided not to go. I was worried that [...]
Sometimes it’s fun to have a laugh at strange use of punctuation. “Ha ha,” we say, clutching our copies of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves close to our bosoms. “Look at how they’ve written it’s instead of its!” But other times there’s use of punctuation that’s so outré that whoever concocted it was surely being more [...]
I’m not sure exactly what I was doing at 1.59pm on Sunday, but I do know that I was sitting in a cinema in Village Queen Street, watching “Kinsey”. It’s quite a good film, but that’s not the point. The point is that I was not actively partaking in the minute of silence. After the [...]
At last! Apple has made an iPod small enough that a lady could insert it into her vagina if she so desired(1). Not that I recommend doing such a thing – a handbag would surely be a better portable storage facility – but it’s nice to know that should such a hiding place be required, [...]
Back in my day, metaller guys wore those slim-fitting black orange tab Levis, even if they were fat (especially if they were fat). Now I see that metaller fashion has got with the new millennium and that metaller guys are now wearing great big giant trousers, which, back in my day, metallers would have scornfully [...]
I was walking along Customs Street today. Just up head was a tacky souvenir shop with a stand out the front displaying some CDs of traditional Maori songs. As I was passing it, a Maori guy walking just a few steps ahead suddenly stopped, picked up one of the CDs from the rack, threw it [...]
I still believe in the romance of New Year’s Eve, of something magical happening at the stroke of midnight. But, in a most unromantic twist, I’m doing something this New Year’s Eve that I’ve never ever done before; I’m spending New Year’s Eve entirely on my own. It sounds horrible, but it’s not. It’s actually [...]